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Aunt Mimi always treated John as Brian's mother treats her son in Monty Python's Life of Brian:'He's not the Messiah.He's a very naughty boy!'On the release of Two Virgins, with its cover photograph of John and Yoko naked, she made her feelings all too clear:'It would have been all right, John, but you're both so ugly. Why don't you get somebody attractive on the cover if you've got to have someone completely naked?'

(.)everyone on the plane began to panic.
(.)Ringo simply stared at the fire. Paul tried to act cool, but Kane noticed that he was biting his lip. George ran to the back, saying, 'Beatles and children first'.
John(.)could not hide his terror. He looked at the fire, said, 'Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit', ran to the emergency door handle.
'Are you crazy! You'll get us all killed.'
But John was not to be put off by logic.

In November 1963, two hundred women working at a cotton mill in Accrington went on strike after their foreman banned them from listening to the radio programme Housewives' Choice: he was sick of the way they would start to scream the moment a Beatles song came on.